There is more controversy surrounding Orlando Venues Director Allen Johnson, as records show a potentially rigged multi-million dollar bid related to the recent Citrus Bowl renovation project. New emails obtained through an extensive public records request also further expose the culture of the department and Mayor Buddy Dyer’s administration. Johnson is… [read more]
Orlando City Commissioner Regina Hill has confirmed her daughter Arvonni DeBose was murdered last August in Tallahassee and she’s asking for help to track down and convict those responsible. In a message posted on social media, Commissioner Hill began her plea saying “I post this with hesitation and regret.” The Commissioner… [read more]
The Orlando Police Department’s 2015 Year in Review provided some troubling statistics related to public safety in the City Beautiful. While there were minor gains being made in some categories of crime statistics, violent crimes increased, with murders doubling across the city from 2014 to 2015. Sex offenses and aggravated assaults… [read more]
Despite today’s City Council vote, a temporary injunction was filed against the City of Orlando attempting to stop the sale of required land for the controversial downtown Major League Soccer stadium. The complaint for injunction relief was filed in state court and asks for a full judicial hearing to prevent the sale… [read more]
An Orlando City Commissioner has filed a notice of bankruptcy for the second time in five months to stall the impending foreclosure of the only home she owns. Commissioner Regina Hill used the same stall tactic last August to stop the foreclosure sale of her house, but a judge threw… [read more]
Yesterday, Ringling Bros. decision to retire all of its elephants by May of this year was “one of the biggest announcements in the modern era of animal welfare,” according to animal rights advocates. But for one of Central Florida’s most prominent Democratic politicians, it may actually be upsetting, after emails reveal one… [read more]
Just months after receiving official designation as an Orlando historical landmark by the City Council, Tinker Field was degraded into a liquor bar and bathroom during this year’s bowl games. On the historic pitcher’s mound, the exact site where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke in his only visit to Orlando, city… [read more]
When he donated his $175,000 sculpture falloffstone to the City of Orlando, artist Peter Shelton never imagined his art would end up being destroyed by city employees and then the center of a three-year cover-up scandal by the Dyer administration. In fact, for years Shelton had tried to figure out what exactly happened… [read more]
This month, the troubled house owned by Orlando City Commissioner Regina Hill will be sold at auction per a new court order issued just days before Christmas. On December 22nd, the Ninth Judicial Circuit court issued a notice of foreclosure against Hill in an ongoing case. The Commissioner told media last… [read more]
Despite last month’s decision by the Municipal Planning Board, the relocation of Orlando Union Rescue Mission’s homeless shelter is not a done deal yet. An official appeal has been filed against two items approved by the Orlando MPB on December 15th which rezone the proposed Parramore location and allow the development… [read more]